Adrian Price-Whelan

@adrian.pw

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(he/him) Astronomer; Leads the Nearby Universe group at the Flatiron Institute / CCA; Asst. Director of Scientific Software @ Simons Foundation; Astropy; Music; https://adrian.pw

Color-magnitude diagrams of six globular clusters with extremely good photometric precision, which show split and multiple populations.
A coordinate-aligned view of the solar eclipse viewed by the Artemis II mission.
Cartoon of a spiral galaxy with planets swirling around.
The lead author's position on using AI tools in research and writing can be summarized as: use them as you would use a colleague. They can help with brainstorming, literature review, and organizing ideas, but the core intellectual work, derivations, and writing should be done by the authors themselves. As such, this work made use of Claude (Anthropic) as a tool to help provide entrypoints into the relevant literature and to help brainstorm the scope and outline of this work. All text was written by the authors, all derivations were done by the authors, and the associated code was developed using GitHub copilot as an assistant.
A screenshot of a bluesky retweet by AOC of a thread by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein with comments down the thread by Rob Sheridan and Phil Plait.
A bizarre internet ad with a man (?) possibly about to insert another man (?) or corpse into a third man's anus?!?
A screenshot of an interactive 3D visualization of known stellar streams around the Milky Way.
a psychedelic matplotlib figure made accidentally by visualizing dynamical resonances
A photo of the Severance cast PR event at Grand Central
Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks) sipping a damn fine cup of coffee.
DeepWiener: Neural Networks for CMB polarization maps and power spectrum computation
A screenshot from CNN that reads "Harris’ Pennsylvania remarks were interrupted by protesters shouting something unintelligible"
a long exposure photo of comet A3
a leaf that looks like the eye of Sauron
Two button meme: left button "prosecute hunter biden", right button "fight background checks for gun purchases"
An artistic visualization of member stars of all known stellar streams around the Milky Way galaxy
four horsemen of the apocalypse
A four by four set of images of stellar orbits that look like spirograph curves
A bingo card with the following entries: work burnout email burnout financial burnout war news burnout political news burnout climate dread burnout health burnout social media burnout AI dread burnout abandoned hobbies burnout housing market burnout grocery cost burnout BINGO trump burnout burnout burnout insomnia burnout seasonal depression burnout commuting burnout Hotel California burnout alternative milk burnout shopping burnout Marvel movie burnout series reboot burnout spreadsheet burnout car culture burnout
A five panel figure showing the vertical phase space (z and vz) of stars in a region of the Milky Way's disk with an equilibrium model subtracted out. What is left is a spiral pattern that is a clear imprint of a phase-mixing perturbation. This uses data from the Gaia Mission.
A plot with unlabeled axes showing a curve that looks like a spoopy cat.
A four-panel set of photographs of people with a moon light. Panels read "Children Playing", "Appointment", "Working", and "Sleeping". No one knows what "Appointment" means